List of people executed in the United States in 1991

Fourteen people, all male, were executed in the United States in 1991, seven by lethal injection, and seven by electrocution.^[1] The execution of infamous serial killer Donald Henry Gaskins marked the nation's first execution of a White defendant for the murder of an African-American person since 1944, and it was a rare phenomenon for White people to be sentenced to death and executed for killing victims of African-American descent.^[2]

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No.	Date of execution	Name	Age of person			Gender	Ethnicity	State	Method	Ref.
No.	Date of execution	Name	At execution	At offense	Age difference	Gender	Ethnicity	State	Method	Ref.
1	February 26, 1991	Lawrence Lee Buxton	38	28	10	Male	Black	Texas	Lethal injection	^[3]
2	April 24, 1991	Roy Allen Harich	32	23	9		White	Florida	Electrocution	^[4]
3	May 23, 1991	Ignacio Cuevas	59	43	16		Hispanic	Texas	Lethal injection	^[5]
4	June 17, 1991	Jerry Joe Bird	54	37	17		White	Texas	Lethal injection	^[6]
5	June 25, 1991	Bobby Marion Francis	46	30	16		Black	Florida	Electrocution	^[7]
6	July 22, 1991	Andrew Lee Jones	35	28	7		Black	Louisiana		^[8]
7	July 24, 1991	Albert Jay Clozza	30	22	8		White	Virginia		^[9]
8	August 22, 1991	Derick Lynn Peterson	30	21	9		Black	Virginia		^[10]
9	August 23, 1991	Maurice Oscar Byrd	36	25	11		Black	Missouri	Lethal injection	^[11]
10	September 6, 1991	Donald Henry Gaskins	58	49	9		White	South Carolina	Electrocution	^[12]
11	September 19, 1991	James Russell	42	25	17		Black	Texas	Lethal injection	^[13]
12	September 25, 1991	Warren McCleskey	46	33	13		Black	Georgia	Electrocution	^[14]
13	October 18, 1991	Michael Van McDougall	36	24	12		White	North Carolina	Lethal injection	^[15]
14	November 12, 1991	G.W. Green	54	39	15		White	Texas	Lethal injection	^[16]
		Average:	43 years	31 years	12 years

Gender
Male	14	100%
Female	0	0%
Ethnicity
Black	7	50%
White	6	43%
Hispanic	1	7%
State
Texas	5	36%
Florida	2	14%
Virginia	2	14%
Georgia	1	7%
Louisiana	1	7%
Missouri	1	7%
North Carolina	1	7%
South Carolina	1	7%
Method
Electrocution	7	50%
Lethal injection	7	50%
Month
January	0	0%
February	1	7%
March	0	0%
April	1	7%
May	1	7%
June	2	14%
July	2	14%
August	2	14%
September	3	21%
October	1	7%
November	1	7%
December	0	0%
Age
30–39	7	50%
40–49	3	21%
50–59	4	29%
Total	14	100%

Number of executions
1992	31
1991	14
1990	23
Total	68

v t e Capital punishment in the United States
Jurisdictions	Federal government Military Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming American Samoa Guam Puerto Rico Washington, D.C.
People executed by state	Federal government Military Alabama (pre-1972) Arizona (pre-1972) Arkansas (pre-1972) California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida (pre-1972) Georgia (pre-1972) Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky (pre-1972) Louisiana (pre-1972) Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi (pre-1972) Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina (pre-1972) North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma (pre-1972) Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina (pre-1972) South Dakota Tennessee Texas 2020–present Utah Vermont Virginia (pre-1972) Washington (pre-1972) West Virginia Wyoming Washington, D.C.
People executed by year	1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965–1972 1976–1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Scheduled executions
Issues and ethics	Botched executions Death-qualified jury Debate Dual sovereignty doctrine Execution drug shortage Exonerations Juveniles Last meal Participation of medical professionals Race and capital punishment White defendants executed for killing a black victim Wrongful executions
Other	Death row inmates Death row inmates who have exhausted their appeals Death Penalty Information Center Most recent executions by state National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty Supreme Court decisions on capital punishment Women executed since 1976 Women on death row

List of people executed in the United States in 1991

Demographics

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